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Click the image above for a chance to win an expense-paid trip to come hang out with us in NYC and hit the AP tour that night all VIP and famous style! Thanks to our friends and Alternative Press and Glamour Kills for putting this together!
Check out Nick on the cover of the new Alternative Press magazine! Can’t wait to see you all on the AP Tour this fall with Four Year Strong, Gallows, Title Fight, and Sharks!
We’ve got some cool merch coming next week that we worked on with our friends at Glamour Kills! We’ll have more info on that next week!
This is in the new AP! Repping my boys SJC Drums!
Jono
Alternative Press has posted the first portion of a mini-documentary we made while recording Good For Me. Check it out!
So excited to announce that we are going to be part of the Alternative Press Tour this fall alongside our good friends in Four Year Strong, and Title Fight, as well our new UK buds in Gallows and SHARKS!!! This is going to be so rad. Check out the info by clicking the image above!
10-13 Allentown, PA (Crocodile Rock Café)
10-14 Baltimore, MD (Rams Head Live)
10-15 Philadelphia, PA (The Trocadero)
10-16 Boston, MA (House Of Blues)
10-18 Clifton Park, NY (Northern Lights)
10-19 New Haven, CT (Toad’s Place)
10-20 Montreal, QC (La Tulipe)
10-21 Toronto, ON (Phoenix Concert Theatre)
10-22 Columbus, OH (Newport Music Hall)
10-23 Pontiac, MI (The Crofoot)
10-25 Milwaukee, WI (Eagles Ballroom)
10-26 Chicago, IL (Metro)
10-27 St. Paul, MN (Station 4)
10-28 Kansas City, MO (The Beaumont Club)
10-29 Denver, CO (The Summit Music Hall)
10-31 Boise, ID (Knitting Factory)
11-01 Seattle, WA (El Corazon)
11-02 Portland, OR (Hawthorne Theater)
11-04 San Francisco, CA (The Regency Ballroom)
11-05 West Hollywood, CA (House Of Blues)
11-06 San Diego, CA (Soma)
11-08 Pomona, CA (The Glass House)
11-09 Mesa, AZ (The Nile Theater)
11-11 San Antonio, TX (White Rabbit)
11-12 Dallas, TX (House Of Blues)
11-13 Houston, TX (Warehouse Live)
11-15 Orlando, FL (Beacham Theater)
11-16 Ft. Lauderdale, FL (Culture Room)
11-17 St. Petersburg, FL (State Theater)
11-18 Atlanta, GA (The Masquerade)
11-19 Charlotte, NC (Amos’ Southend Music Hall)
11-20 Norfolk, VA (The NorVa)
11-22 New York, NY (Irving Plaza)
11-23 Sayreville, NJ (Starland Ballroom)
11-25 Pittsburgh, PA (Altar Bar)
11-26 Cleveland, OH (House Of Blues)
Alternative Press has named our new album, Good For Me, one of their favorite albums from the first half of 2011!!
THE SWELLERS Good For Me (FUELED BY RAMEN)
Bill Stevenson produced the Swellers’ second FBR album, Good For Me. To say that vocalist/guitarist Nick Diener was thrilled about this arrangement would be a vast understatement—after all, he and his bandmates are huge fans of Stevenson’s influential pop-punk band, the Descendents. Good For Me naturally has plenty of infectious pop-punk signifiers: breakneck drumming, pristine harmonies and hooks to spare. But the Swellers aren’t trying to emulate their heroes as much as they’re striving to perfect their own sound; in fact, Good For Me displays rather-impressive songwriting progressions. “Parkview” is the best tune Alkaline Trio didn’t write, while the nostalgic-but-optimistic “The Best I Ever Had” is a bona-fide summer anthem.
Alternative Press posted one of the first reviews of The Swellers’ new album Good For Me. Click HERE to read the full thing and don’t forget to pick up your copy of it next Tuesday! AP compares the album to Descendents, Weezer, The Ataris and Foo Fighters:
“The band proudly wear their influences on their collective sleeve throughout Good For Me’s 35 minutes, dealing in buoyant, Descendents-esque pop-punk and sludgy, stomping midtempo rock a la Weezer’s Pinkerton. “Runaways” and “The Best I Ever Had” recall the effortless, bouncy pop-rock of the Ataris ca. So Long Astoria, while “The Damage” and “Nothing More To Me” are cut from the same modern-rock cloth on which Foo Fighters built their empire.”
photo by Mike Lambert
(Source: fueledbyramen)
Alt Press just posted an article on The Swellers wrapping up work in the studio on their new album due out this summer. Click HERE to see what they had to say!
“We’re working in the best studio we’ve ever worked with and the best producers we’ve ever worked with—so everything so far is the best we’ve ever done. It’s a really good feeling to know that in our lives, this is going to be a huge milestone, making this record.” - Nick Diener
Nick is in this month’s Alternative Press as part of their “Real Guitar Heroes” special feature, and he’s looking super 90’s. Make sure to pick up a copy when it hits stands next week.
